Conversation with Rep. #RashidaTlaib: 78 Years Since the #Nakba

"Join Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib—the only Palestinian-American Member of Congress—for a special virtual conversation commemorating 78 years since the Nakba began. The event will feature guest speaker Dr. #YousefMunayyer, Head of the #Palestine / #Israel Program and Senior Fellow at Arab Center Washington DC."

replay: https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/briefings/nakba-78
#PalestineSolidarity #USpol #Nakba78 #NakbaDay #Gaza #GazaSolidarity #colonialViolence

May 14, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman #RashidaTlaib (MI-12) re-introduced the resolution Recognizing the Ongoing #Nakba and #PalestinianRefugees’ Rights.

https://tlaib.house.gov/posts/tlaib-introduces-resolution-recognizing-78-years-of-ongoing-palestinian-nakba
#Palestine #Gaza #USpol #HR1289 #NakbaDay #Nakba78 #colonialViolence

"To counter this insidious attempt at #Nakba memoricide by U.S. politicians and others, it is instructive to review the archives of U.S. diplomats stationed in #Palestine and surrounding Arab countries who witnessed the Nakba unfold and reported back to the #StateDepartment on the magnitude and gravity of #Israel’s dispossession of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants." - #JoshRuebner

https://www.mei.edu/publications/five-things-united-states-knew-about-nakba-it-unfolded
#Nakba78 #NakbaDay #PalestineQuestion #USpol #USMiddleEastPolicy #colonialViolence

"The US actually understood quite early on that the partition plan as proposed by #UNSCOP was not workable and not feasible [...] The US did more than think about going back on partition. In March 1948 [...] the US actually proposed in the Security Council that an international trusteeship be appointed for #Palestine instead of partition." - #JoshRuebner

#Nakba 1948: What Washington Knew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fMiKXebU9Y
#NakbaDay #Nakba78 #PalestineQuestion #USpol #USMiddleEastPolicy #colonialViolence

"[N]inety-year-old George Bahu revisits his childhood in al-Baqa’a al Foqa, a Palestinian neighborhood in West #Jerusalem before the #Nakba. [...]
"George also recalls the violence that transformed the city: the King David Hotel bombing, armed Zionist attacks on Palestinian neighborhoods, and the mass displacement of #Palestinians in 1948."

This is #Palestine with Diana Buttu

https://this-is-palestine.simplecast.com/episodes/and-i-too-love-jerusalem-voices-from-al-nakba
#NakbaDay #Nakba78 #MandatePalestine #colonialViolence

"In the 78 years since 1948, I have never ceased to think, plan and strive for my right of return home. I started school in Cairo, where my brothers were already at university. In the summer holiday I returned to #Gaza, to scenes I had never imagined. Masses of people were flooding the small enclave that became known as the Gaza Strip."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/may/right-of-return
#Palestine #Nakba #colonialViolence

'Based on legal analysis and exclusive data, as well as interviews with officials and residents, The National has examined how #Israel is carrying out what legal experts describe as “wanton destruction” in southern #Lebanon, particularly within the “yellow line” that marks occupied territory.'

https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/05/12/razing-southern-lebanon-inside-israels-campaign-of-wanton-destruction/
#SouthLebanon #warOnLebanon #colonialViolence #warCrimes #urbicide

"The National Post, the Western Standard and the Epoch Times — a far-right international newspaper — are just a few other outlets that Clifton said the members of his email group and Frontier Centre colleagues regularly write for." https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/05/08/Who-Behind-Residential-School-Denialism/

#media #residentialSchools #denialism #SettlerColonialism #ColonialViolence #Canada #cdnpoli

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 -

Brown's 1948 history of the violent colonial movements and native resistance in the western US, well-documents with photographs.

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #deebrown #fightingindiandsofthewest #history #indigenoushistory #westwardexpansion #colonialviolence

"Coiste na nIarchimí the umbrella group for former Irish republican prisoners hosted a[n] informative discussion marking #PalestinianPrisonersDay. The discussion centered around #Israel's systematic #torture and brutality towards thousands of #PalestinianPrisoners held in #IsraeliPrisons."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPVLILAfio0
#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #politicalPrisoners #PalestinianDetainees #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #colonialViolence